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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1964-03-05, Page 2Your 1-A. Label AND .WHAT IT SAYS This, is the ntenth when your scription :come s due. Expiry date i s the first, of this month, The last digit shown indicates the year (in this case, 1964) to which your subscription is paid. When this subscription is renewed, the "4" will disappear and "5" (1965) Will be the last digit showing. The other numbers remainto serve in future years. Jobr D . :xotwr , PP Crrt ri-t; , -7 - ri ONE MAN'S OPINION by John C. Boyne Everybody's doing it EDITORIALS Humor, Russian,stle We .need .el ection cures' What do the Russians laugh at? Their cartoonists jibes aren't much different from our own, if these saint/WS frOM "Soviet Union Today" magazine are typical. The cartoons reproduced here are taken from "icrokodil" (Crocodile), a popular $pviet humor magazine now in its 41st year of publication. This Russian periodlcal, according to an ex- planatory note, "does not look indifferently from the sidelines but instead strikes out with biting, sarcastic illustrations levelled at absurdities. This publication takes a vigorous part in com- bating inertness, routinism, banality and bureau- cratism. Its pitchford is aimed straight at red- tapists, PltilistInes, bodgers and idlers." Dobbs for DODGE "Awright, come inside and let's call the war off." Immediate Delivery! '64 Signet Convertible, distinctive white with blackleather bucket seats and black nylon top, automatic transmission, 145 h.p0. slant 6 motor, white wall tires. Full retail price delivered ONLY $3,480 '61 Deluxe Volkswagen $1,095 LIKE NEW terject, some caution, as might be .expected be- fore undertaking such a Major. program. What, asks Mr. Robarts legitimately, happens to ex- isting private pension plans,' like the one into which employees of The Times-Advocate and thousands of other businesses across Canada have paid into for years? Mr. Robarts' comments, curiously, are shrugged off as those of a reactionary. He's being blamed for delaying the wonderful pro- gram. Ironically, had he, as did Quebec, pulled out of the program, the federal government couldn't consider a pension plan at all, But there are more questions than that of private pension plans, as the Financial Post points out in an objective resume this week. Unless changes are made, civil servants for example will receive a pension equal to 102% of their salaries. Highly paid executives will receive greater proportional benefits than the members of their office staff. These are just a few of the prOblems which Ottawa has not yet solved, but Mr. Pear- son insists upon going ahead with the pro- gram anyway. We not only need a cure for election- time drinking. We need a remedy for post- election stupor. This county needs a cure for its elec- tion-time drinking, Every time we cast our ballots, we find ourselves with a hangover of promises that only another expensive round of legislation can cure. Prime Minister Pearson's pension plan is the latest indulgence of the hustings now causing pain. The prime minister says he'll in- troduce the bill within two weeks. "We prom- ised it," he says, like a man proud of his hon- or, "Now we're going to give it to you." It would be wonderful if Mr. Pearson could "give" it to us. It would be lovely if this were just one man's spur-of-the-moment prom- ise for which he alone was responsible. Instead, the upholding of this political integrity be- comes the responsibility of all Canadians. We pay for it, literally and perhaps figuratively. „ It's likely to be more coincidence than good judgment if we don't pay for the haste with which the bill is being introduced, We may wind up with an entanglement of govern- ment administration and excessive cost, simply to satisfy political pride. From Ontario, where pension plans have been studied at government level for over two years, Prime Minister Robarts has tried to in- Self-service milk shop. A long wait ahead. Welcome organization '59 Plymouth 4 door powerful V-8 engine, custom radio, sure grip diff., heavy duty suspension, 800 x 14 tires. Was $1,195 - NOW $1,095 '58 Plymouth 2 door station wagon, V-8 engine, standard trans. Just right for camping or trailering $895 It's welcome news to hear that a horti- cultural society is being organized again for Exeter. Works Sup't Jim Paisley, at the sugges- tion of council, has been assisting in the for- nmtion of such a group and it appears his ef- forts will be successful. A number of local citi- zens have shown interest. The community already benefits from the work of the horticultural society of the past. Not a few of the trees which the commu- nity now enjoys, including some of those at Riverview Park, resulted from the activity of an earlier group. Riverview Park, now expanded, can again benefit from the interest of such a so- The Buy of The Week ciety. Much planting needs to be done to de- velop the potential of this beauty spot. Trees need defenders in this day of ruth- less cutting to make way for service. In fair- ness, council and the PUC have undertaken a replacement program to compensate for the trees being cut each year but a local citizen's group can add needed impetus to this pro- gram. It could also provide leadership in en- couraging tree planting in our new, but bar- ren subdivisions. And everyone will welcome a renewed interest in landscaping and flower gardens throughout the town. Nothing else makes a community more pleasant. '56 DODGE REGENT SEDAN, V-8 ENGINE, PUSH BUTTON AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION, SHARP BLACK AND WHITE 2-TONE $250 '58 FARGO, ONE TON, V-8, 4 SPEED TRANSMIS- SION, NEEDS BODY WORK $250 Exeter Motor Sales PHONE 235-1250 EXETER OISCOMMINICEOPMM.M.,.. BY THE EDITOR Don Southcott Task for our leader Off to a football game. A reader forwards the following thought-provoking editorial from The Independent Businessman. It's worth reprinting in full: gets a relevant blast: "Instead of using the university environ- ment to develop their minds so that they can do something of value for the world they con- sider it a place to acquire enough know-how to get more money for doing less work after they graduate. This idea of working only for money is rot- ting our whole society." His conclusion is a vital, relevant call to rise above the mediocre; to put more into life than we take out. "The only way in which the uncontrolled skid into oblivion might be con- trolled is by people having the courage to fight for what is of lasting merit and to give their best to preserve it. If we con- tinue to drink from the stream of civilization without produc- ing anything in return the ero- sion of our way of life will continue until the stream runs dry." This is an eloquent appeal not to follow the crowd. It is a plea to all of us to replace mediocre group values with nobler values and attitudes. I submit that the values and attitudes of Chris- tianity are still the best we know. They can keep us from slipping into a cosy comfort- able conformity. As April Oursler Armstrong once put it, "In every child, thank God, there smoulders sparks of rebellion. Let us feed those sparks, training our children to he rebels against status worship, girdle com- mercials and mediocrity. May they be taught to keep their rough edges and never fit too comfortably into this fascinat- ing, passing world." .0•00°. what will you buy Is money burning a hole in your pocket? Don't spend it foolishly. Invest your money wisely in GUARANTEED CERTIFICATES Comments or criticism will be wel- comed. Write PO Box 32 Exeter "I ve been hanging here for half and hour. I wonder what they're doing up there." from British Mortgage & Trust. Your investment earns Ask anyone outside of Canada what Canadians are most noted for and they will say that Canadians are the bravest of warriors. Wherever and whenever our country has wed an endangered cause, our men have followed the drum and the bugle. Into the smoke, into the fire and even into the tomb Canadians have fought staunchly and died with such abandon that it sometimes seemed there was nothing in life but death. We die so well but we live with such futility! Canada itself has existed for nearly a hundred years, but has never really lived at all. Here we are in the third largest country in the world, twenty million of us, clinging to the border of the United States as if it were a cliff we had just fallen over. The east doesn't know nor does it really care about the west. The south only knows of the north through the eyes of Robert Service, from behind the blindfold of the De- partment of Northern Affairs, from the pages of Farley Mowat; and, none of us because we haven't the courage to perform a national role. We haven't a country because we haven't a flag, we haven't an anthem and some say we haven't even an ac- ceptable constitution. We are a mas- sive land composed of such democra- tic idiots that we run competitions for national symbols, offer prizes for our anthem's lyrics and most of us don't know the difference between a constitution and constipation and would care more about the latter than the former. Canadians can have a flag, an anthem and a constitution only as a result of decision and leadership. In these in- stances, a counting of noses can only lead to chaos, Allow each of our millions to make the selection and we'll find that we'll be flying something like a pair of bloomers, perhaps the only symbol acceptable to all, from the top of our mast while we all hum a wordless anthem through a kazoo at the base of our national flagpole. We are led by a brave man who showed gallantry in time of war.Cana- dians now look to him for leadership and decision in time of peace, Only these qualities can give us the sym- bols and the. causes that will send a united Canada into its second century. would know of the ulcers in the pit of our national stomach had the separa- tists not found complete support in Quebec. One coast hardly belongs to the other and what have we got in common but a name? And even that is not written on a generally accepted constitution. Will we exist even as a geographical unit to see our one hundredth birthday? Perhaps not. The irony of our situation on this earth is that the only time we have had any national feeling has been during times when we've been bleeding from the wounds of war. Only in time of war did we ever have a national cause. But now that war can no longer bring unity to any country, only international dis- integration, Canada could die from the lack of it. Until now Canada and Canadians have been do-nothings in time of peace. While the world struggles in the great- est war of all times against hunger, disease and ignorance, Canada, com- pared to other nations, pays no more than a spectator at a global football game to watch as millions starve, wither and wilt away. We do so little abroad because we are capable of doing even less at home. We cannot fulfill an international role 5'% % "ViM,7::',4,`ZaTAZ,7=Nriar 1 - 5 YEARS 50 YEARS AGO Arthur Dick will give an ex- hibition with the Aladdin lamp at SS 1 Usborne Thursday even- ing. It outshines electricity. Western Ontario went to Ot- tawa over 1500 strong last Thursday and presented the wa- terways and hydro radial situa- tion to the governmen t.11on. Adam Beck was the principal speaker for the visitors. D. HodgSon, of Granton has purchased the. Heaslip farm from John Colwill and takes possession at once. This is one of the best farms in Stephen TWp and was sold for a little over $8000. 25 YEARS AGO Members of the Exeter Board Of Education met the architect of the new School building, Mr. Warren, Hamilton, and the geti- eral contractor, Mr. Prther- bough, at the school Tuesday morning and arrangements Were made for taking'Over the building, Rev. J. W. Penrose, of Elitn. Ville has purchased the resi- dence Of Miss Eldon, Andrew Si. He expectS to retire from the tIC Ministry in .tune. Guaranteed Investment Certificates are approved for trust funds. The interest can be deposited to your Savings Account or paid by cheque. Invest $100 or mare today. The meeting of the Grand Bend Home and Scheol Ass'n was opened with the customary gas and oil lamps but later the hydro lights were turned on for the first time. 15 YEARS AGO At the Lions Club su ppe Meeting in the Central Hefei, Charles Dolphin, an architect from Toronto, outlined hospital planning for Exeter: Murray mby, e a r,old student of Exeter District High School, was selected the out- standing all-round athlete of his School. 10 YEARS AGO Mr. and MrS. Isaac Gower Of Crediton marked their golden wedding anniversary on TiteS day, March 2, Michael Farrow scored 90 marks in the piano solo sonatas competition at the Kiwanis rnu- sic FeStival in Stratford to win the AnneScott4Ittnaford titphy, SHDHS's long reign over WO.. SSA "B" basketball ended On Sattitclay- When the local school failed to bring home a Cham- piOnShIP fretil the "P ti r p 1 e HOW' ter the first time infour yearS, Since 1877 How often do we justify shoddy living by saying, "Everybody's doing it"? How often do teen- agers get their way, against their parents' better judgment, by pleading "but everybody's doing it"? Surely what we all have to learn to say is this: Just be- cause everybody's doing it does not necessarily make it right. There is great pressure, how- ever, to follow the crowd, to conform, to fit in with majority opinion, to be well adjusted to your environment. Too often, however, b e ing well adjusted means making yourself fit an assembly line mould. Too often it mean s putting your faith and your idealism under lock and key. Too often it means giving sup- port to standards that are un- worthy of our allegiance. And yet as a result of the pressure to conform, when the crowd says let's get drunk, many do not fight it, they go along. When the crowd says Christianity is for the birds many go along. When the stan- dard procedure on the job is to do as little work as possible for the most money, many com- fortably agree. In fact we've all gone along with this to the point that it is increasingly difficult to get a good honest day's work for a day's pay. Too often we are all squeez- ed into the world's mould until we become conformists; until we are incapable of objecting, or transforming, or reforming, or renewing our society. We all have to learn how to fight mob pressure and the pressure to keep up with the Joneses— whoever they maybe! As someone has said "It may be wise when in Rome to do what the Romans do; it is not wise when in Ecquador to do as the headhunters do". The peo- ple who make a lasting con- tribution are always those who are capable of rebellion, cap- able of objecting to shoddy liv- ing. Jesus did not go along with the crowd, He was dissatisfied With the church as he found it. He was crucified by the me- diocre majority, the mob, the crowd. Following the c ro wd does not always mean following the true, the right, or the good. The majority is not always right. Popular standards are not always noble, It is good to see a rising tide of criticism against mediocrity. The Gazette, the University of Western Ontario newspaper, carried an interesting article on Feb. 4/64, by Bob Willis, "A Stream Run Dry". He con- dernns the worship of the me- diocre and then this, "More than in any era in the past, ideas and deeds are completely do- minated by the majority who hold suspect any person who stands out from tbe faceless crowd", goeS on: "No longer does our society breed great men who are hot afraid to oppoSe the commonplace, Who are not a- fr aid to take positions, whostick by What they know to be good and true". Eden his student readership Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 elteifer'Zinteo-Akasocafe SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND Member: C.W.N.A., 0.W,N.A., C.O.N.R. and ABC BRITISH MORTGAGE & TRUST Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ont. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dep't, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage In Cash Paid-inAdvance Circulation, September 30, 1963-3,828 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $4.00 PO Yeat";, USA WO C, V. BARRETT, MANAGER, EXETER Telephonet 2.334153d VIXEMZEIZZIOMMIZEUXIM:=SiLc